As the Christmas feeling is in the air you are probably digging out those dreaded lights.As you are pulling the thousands of lights out you realize that yup, that whole strand is broken. Or the lights look like one giant snowball all contorted together. Once you drag the big ole tree out of your basement or off of the top of your family car, you finally get to set the tree up for the further decorating process. So now you not only have some working lights but you have to get all of the tiny little delicate ornaments out one by one to hang them just in the right place. But you have to first get all of those lights undone so that you can wrap up the tree. Once all of that is done you step back and have a beautiful fluffy tree deck with lights and ornaments and maybe even a little fake snow to top it off. And the lights go on....and the tree just sparkles and you just love to see the Christmas spirit that is radiating off the tree as you sit by the fire. Christmas trees are one of the several traditions of Christmas. We all look forward to the holiday season... it means tons of food, presents, family time, Christmas movies. We also all know that Christmas is always thought of as a celebration for us and just a good time for us. Yes it is a celebration for us but NOT about us. I could sit here and ramble on about how today's society doesn't view Christmas as the thanking and celebration of God by his birth. But I am going to focus your attention on the Christmas tree. I want you to go look at a tree whether if its your own or a public one, the next time you see one I want you to stop and examine it to see if this lesson fits the description of the tree. Like I said, a Christmas tree is normally covered in millions of ornaments that are all different in shapes and sizes and beauty. The tree itself is normally a real tree (even though we all cheat and get a fake one) and do you know what trees do for us when they are still in the ground? God created trees with the mind set that we would get our breath of life from them. We breath because of trees! Can you imagine if we didn't have trees? How would we live? So now the importance of a Christmas tree truly comes through. If you have any kind of tree in your living room for Christmas that shows the life of God and the breath of life that he gives us everyday. Because God is alive and so are we!! Going back to the ornaments, we are the ornaments. Remember how I said there are millions of them and they are in all shapes and sizes and beauty? Doesn't that sound a lot like us humans? We are all unique and every single day we are pinned upon the tree of life that God holds so closely because its his heart. If you step back and look at the tree I have just created in your mind you will see a tree which represents the life that God has and has given us. And you will see the ornaments which symbolize every single one of us and how we are so close to our father in heaven. Now the tree might look great in our mind but to others wouldn't the tree look a little blah? That's why you need to place all of the lights on the tree so that you can radiate the light of Gods life through his and your life! This holiday season I challenge you to not focus on the perfection of the holiday or all of the little details of giving. But I want you to focus on putting up the tree of Gods life in your life and lighting it up so people all over the world can see it. Don't be ashamed of your God because he will out shine any broken bulb.
Word of the Day: " Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself."
~Revelation 19:7
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